Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond
just_another_person@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
This ONLY works at an insane scale. This will never hit the consumer market.
Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond
just_another_person@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
This ONLY works at an insane scale. This will never hit the consumer market.
Korkki@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
Also what current consumer level application could require of storage 140TB. That would be some advanced level data hoarding or smth.
Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 9 hours ago
@Korkki @just_another_person I see 4k HDR blue ray movie rips these days on the order of 50GB. Which is too rich for my blood (I'm still watching on 1080p screens over here), but for someone with the right kind of home theater.. that's only ~280 movies on a 14TB drive. Lots of movie collections, even in the olden days of physical VHS and DVDs, span 1,000+ movies.
Zorque@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
14TB or 140TB? The later is what’s being talked about, so that’s more like 2800 movies. Which more than covers that 1000+ movie criteria.
Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 6 hours ago
@Zorque I'm saying that 14TB will only fit 280 (or more likely, less) of those ultra-hq movies, so 140TB (or, in the lead up to that, 100TB, since they're talking about 5+ years or more before they even get close to 140TB) is reasonable for a 1,000-2,000 movie collection. Obviously I'm being loose with numbers, but the fact that one single movie can consume almost 80GB.. well, you can start to understand consumer demand for 100+TB drives.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
The failure rate is going to be absolute INSANE as well.